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As Spiritual Politics’ Mark Silk puts it: Today’s NYT article on abortion and the Catholic vote by John Broder is pretty inadequate. The problem is that Broder treats Catholics like single-issue voters, a trap that the news media at large–including God-o-Meter, on occasion–fall into. Silk points out that Catholic voting patterns vary considerably by race…

The New York Times reports that one of the strongest indicators that Barack Obama and the Democratic National Committee is thinking hard about winning back Catholics is they’re consideration of pro-life Sen. Bob Casey, Jr for a speaking slot at this month’s convention. The Pennsylvania senator’s father, then-Keystone State Gov. Bob Casey, was famously denied…

Part of Senator John McCain’s constituency can be described as secularist libertarian. The man, after all, is from the West, where that identity has long held a proud place. If there were any question that those folks would figure somewhere in his campaign, he laid it to rest late Monday with a campaign appearance at what…

Neither Senators Barack Obama nor John McCain feel particularly comfortable talking about gay marriage as a campaign issue.”Both have this nuanced ‘On the one hand and on the other hand’ need-to-explain position, and I think that makes it difficult for either to take a stand,” says David Domke, a University of Washington professor, in an…
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